Tom Robinson
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTom Robinson is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience and a PhD in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has built production features for constrained platforms—most recently implementing Google Assistant on Fuchsia for Nest Hub devices—and led end-to-end automated testing on both hardware and emulators. His background spans desktop, mobile, and embedded UI work from Maplesoft to open-source Flutter contributions, where he improved scrolling behavior and stability in the popular scrollable_positioned_list widget. Comfortable moving between research-driven requirements analysis and hands-on engineering, he brings a strong testing mindset (JUnit, Selenium) and experience improving testability through dependency injection. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance performance, usability, and maintainability across diverse platforms.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A.N. MyerDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Systems Design Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
web-widgets10
flutter-game10
dart10
mobile-development10
widgets10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
flutter-navigation6
scroll6
routes6
bazel6
android-canvas6
height6
inheritance6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/flutter.widgets
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the `scrollable_positioned_list` package, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to scrolling behavior and list positioning within a Flutter widget. Their work included fixing an issue with scroll extents, improving scrolling to target items, and addressing controller detachment issues. They also implemented unit tests to ensure the functionality and stability of the list widget.
tarobins/flutter.widgets
Apr 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:51 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 1 month
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